How do domesticated animals, especially dogs, react to 804?
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Probably no effect, but I see where you're going with the idea. I could see it maybe breaking them of their domestication but in my mind the people who'd want this thing on would have let nature sort itself out by forcing the domesticated animals to live on their own or die… or they just never considered it.
This seems like a pretty XK Class scenario to me. If approached by a whole country's population it could be activated long enough to engulf most of the world in its radius.
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I like this particular SCP, but how did the teams' guns survive the effective radius when -804 was able to take out one of their transports along with clothes and equipment?
Only one transport was lost, if everyone lost their equipment there would have been no way to get back or stay warm for any of them.
To clarify, what I meant was that 804 was able to neutralize a transport, but was not quick enough to neutralize everyone else's weapons or equipment.
No one else entered the active area of effect after the first transport was lost. It had been intermittently active, not constantly active, so it wasn't scrubbing everything around it in a constantly growing, ever stronger radius. It was breaking down and was solely powered by crazy people at this point.
Agents found the perimeter of the effect, stood outside and shot into it. Their guns and clothes were not effected, and the effect was too slow to stop flying bullets. They could have conceivably waited until everyone out there died from the machine and exposure and walked up to it safely, but that wasn't known at the time.
This thing was inherently flawed, it could not have actually destroyed humanity as it was because it was destroying itself and had been activated in the middle of nowhere to begin with. There's some unspoken implications there. Either it was a colossal screw up of a doomsday weapon, or more likely someone was testing a doomsday weapon and is now back to the drawing board with empirical data.
Alternately, my personal preference was that the device's effect was completely unintentional, some sort of by-product of its creators' twisted desires.
I have to speak into the past to relay this, because I feel it so greatly.
I LOVE this idea, that it was simply a testing prototype.
"Worked like a charm. Now to take care of this self-degradation problem…"
I particularly like your mention of standard tests for memetic effects.
Requesting permission to edit "large red button labeled EVERYTHING DIES" into SCP-2018-j
The "They wanted to do it" line creeped me out more than almost everything I've read, SCP-wise.
I just noticed that the photograph says "Photo: Andrew Arnold" at the bottom. Anyone mind if I crop that out? If I do, it would most likely be fixed within a day.
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Andrew Arnold might. Photographs are subject to copyright/licensing/whatever just the same as literature is. Cropping that is tantamount to refusing to acknowledge authorship of an article on this site. I think you know the sort of reaction that would arise from that, so extrapolate that to this photo. I'd suggest either getting the photographer's permission to do so, or leaving it as it is. Probably easier to just leave it.
Most agents and such are usually called Agent BLANK because of a lack of need for a name.
You could put an agent arnold somewhere…
I'd rather leave it as is for the same reasons Adam gave. Explaining the signature with an Agent Arnold character would not be much different from clipping it away and pretending the picture wasn't someone else's… walking on enough of a morally gray area for my tastes as it is.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy
Okay, I've had my final say.
Actually, We usually crop the watermarks and signature dealies out of SCP pics.
The wiki's policy is and always has been that copyrighted material is removed on request by the original copyright holder, so if someone is bothered that we've appropriated their work they can simply tell a staff member and we'll take care of it.
Derp. The image link says that the picture was part of the realtime chat page. Since that's gone, the image is probably gone too. Anyone have a backup?
Edit: Never mind, this was from an old contest. I'll put up my copy of the image.
Edit #2: Done.
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